Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting libxml2 package, versions <0:2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.6


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-LIBXML2-3042578
  • published12 Oct 2022
  • disclosed3 May 2022

Introduced: 3 May 2022

CVE-2022-29824  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 libxml2 to version 0:2.9.1-6.amzn2.5.6 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2022-1848.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxml2 package and not the libxml2 package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

In libxml2 before 2.9.14, several buffer handling functions in buf.c (xmlBuf*) and tree.c (xmlBuffer*) don't check for integer overflows. This can result in out-of-bounds memory writes. Exploitation requires a victim to open a crafted, multi-gigabyte XML file. Other software using libxml2's buffer functions, for example libxslt through 1.1.35, is affected as well.

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